J. IT. Emert07i — JSTew England Epeiridce. 317 



rest of the top of the abdoinen is white with sometimes liglit 

 brown oblique lines across the hinder part. The sides and under 

 part of the abdomen are dark brown with oblique whitish spots on 

 the sides, two white stripes below, and four white spots around the 

 spinnerets. The male differs but little from the female in the usual 

 way. The finger of the epigynum is short and blunt between two 

 lobes which extend slightly beyond the edge of the fold. The 

 palpal organs are large for the size of the spider, and the shape of 

 the hard parts characteristic, fig. 10. 

 Massachusetts, and New Haven, Conn. 



Epeira gibberosa Heutz. 



JSp. maculata Keyserling, Zool. Botan. Gesellsch., Wien, Aug. 2, 1865. 

 Plate XXXIV, figures 1, la. Plate XXXVI, figure 17. 



Female 4 or 6'"™ long. The cephalothorax is dull yellow with a 

 narrow black stripe in the middle from the eyes to the dorsal groove. 

 The legs are dull yellow with long black spines and sometimes narrow 

 longitudinal dark stripes. The abdomen is gray, thickly covered 

 with yellowish spots. In the hinder part are two black lines partly 

 broken into spots, and there are black spots and irregular oblique 

 lines at the sides. The under side of the abdomen is brown with two 

 white lines and four or six spots around the spinnerets very much as 

 in E. placidd. The epigyimm has a short blunt finger much like 

 that of E. placida. 



The male is somewhat smaller than the female. The palpal 

 organs are large and the appendages long and distinct. The basal 

 process is widened at the end and has a long tooth at each corner, 

 with several shorter ones between. Near the basal process is a nar- 

 row, soft appendage wiiich extends outward nearly to the terminal 

 hook. The other appendages are the tube and a black process of 

 nearly the same size just below it, and a short black process on the 

 opposite side of the organ. 



Massachusetts ; Providence, R. I.; New Haven, Conn. 



Epeira parvula Keys., Sitzimgsberichte der Isis, Dresden, 1863. 

 Plate XXXIV, figures 12, 12ft, 12i», 12c. Plate XXXVII, figures 1 and 2. 



Adult female from Mt. Tom, Mass., 8""'" long. Male from New 

 Haven, 6'"™ long. 



The abdomen is widest in front at the second segment. The back 

 is flat with a slight hump behind, which projects backward beyond 



